Hopper water-closet



(No Model.)

H. W. MANSUR.

HOPPER WATER CLOSET.

No. 311,342. Patented Jan.v 27, 1885.

Wifneaaew N. PETERS Phalu-hthngraphur. Washington, Dc

UNITED STATES PATENT OEErcE.

HENRY W. MANSUR, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HOPPER WATER-CLOSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of'Letters Patent No. 311,32, dated January 27, 1885.

Application filed April 15, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY WIMANSUR, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hopper WaterClosets, of which the following is a specification.

Thisinvention has relation to improvements in hopper water-closets; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of devices, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claim appended.

To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention relates to make and use my improvements, I will proceed to describe the same, referring to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of a hopper water-closet embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, partly in section, to show the waste-pipe.

In Fig. 1, A is the body of the hopper water-closet.

B B is the flushingrim, and is set or constructed so that there shall be a slight elevation of the front above the rear of the rim to insure the drainage of all water from the rim into the inlet arm or joint D.

G is the curtain or veil overhanging the flushingrim B B, curving toward and approaching within about half an inch of the interior wall of the hopper.

D is the inlet arm or joint connecting the hopper with the supply-pipe on a line, or nearly so, with the flushing-rim.

E is a waste or drain pipe extending from the bottom of the inlet arm or joint D down to and connecting with the outlet of the hopper near its base. When a ventilating-pipe,

F, is used, the waste or drain pipe E is connected with upper part of the junction formed by the ventilatingpipe F with the body of the hopper. The waste or drain pipe E discharges all water remaining in the flushingrim B B and the inlet arm or joint D, after use, into the outlet G of the hopper.

G is the outlet of the hopper.

I is a support forming part of the body of the hopper, and H is a flange at the base of the hopper.

The rim of the bowl of my hopper watercloset is elliptical in form. The inlet of the hopper is at the rear of the ellipse. The inner surface of the bowl of the hopper at the rear is nearly perpendicular and nearly in line with the outlet of the hopper, while the inner surface of the front and sides of the bowl of the hopper slope uniformly, so as to preserve a uniform proportional ellipse from the rim of the bowl to a point nearly vertical with the perpendicular line of the outlet of the ho per. This point is about three inches from the ase.

The practical operation of the hopper watercloset is that the water from the supply-pipe is driven over both sides of the surface of the bowl, and meeting at the front is gathered into one volume and projected in a body against the rear wall of the hopper, and nearly vertically into the outlet, so as to insure a thorough drenching and washing of the hopper and the removal of any soil that may have been deposited in the mouth of the ventilating-pipe Having fully described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent isp In a hopper water-closet having inlet-pipe D, the bowl A, constructed as described, having the forward portion of the flushingrim slightly elevated, and the skirt-flange overhanging the same, combined with a vertical waste-pipe, E, extending from the base of said inlet-pipe at its point of junction with the bowl to the discharge-opening thereof, substantially as specified.

HENRY W. MANSUR.

Witnesses:

F. A. SULLIVAN, JOHN J. DIXON. 

